Jason: 4594 books

Part historical evocation, part travelogue, and part personal quest, An Unexpected Light is the account of Elliot's journey through Afghanistan, a country considered off-limits to travelers for twenty years. Aware of the risks involved, but determined to explore what he could of the Afghan people...

Lying just south of Neshoba County, where three civil rights workers were murdered during Freedom Summer, Clarke County lay squarely in Mississippi's--and America's--meanest corner. Even at the height of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, when the clarion call for equality and justice echoed...

Time-honored cocktails like the New York Sour and the Sidecar were born during the era of Prohibition, the blessedly bygone social experiment that turned drinking into an underground adventure. In those days, hard beverage options were usually made with homemade hooch and flavorings of dubious origin...

A short, pocket guide to inform you on what you will need and need to know for the zombie apocalypse.

This story came to me in a message over the internet. The man claimed to need an anonymous way to get the word out about this disappearance. He told the story to me in its entirety and then offered to release to me all rights if I would publish it under my name, title it “This is a true story!”,...

I Think I Need to Talk to a Doctor tells author Jason Ventres life storyso far anyway. He shares his history for many reasons, but chief among them is the need to explain his life experiences so that others may try to avoid having them. Diagnosed with bipolar syndrome, he talks honestly about the...

You meant more to meThan the ones before.Tell me why.You were no better than them,But I loved you more.Tell me why.I die day by day.Tell me why.I don’t mindThat you’re now away.Tell me why.I almost want to love to hateThat you’ve been gone for forever,And an eternity longer, I will have to wait.Tell me why.

This is all like some movie,Except nobody I know ever gets rich.They just deal with a lot of shit.All the liars, thieves, and hypocritesTake everything away,Or at least, most of it.

She's miss perfectPerfect for me in every wayBut I'm so concernedThat I no longer hear her sayShe wants me anymoreAnd I don't know what forI'm afraid

I'm just stayin aliveI don't really know whyI can't take this shitIt never fuckin endsThe same ol' day to dayWhy do I haveTo live this wayI think I'm made to payFor everyone else's mistakesPlace the blame on themOr at leastLet me pay with my lifeFuck, I wanna die

I...Don't want to hurt youBut I...Don't know how much I can careAll I doIs seem to curse youAnd I...Don't know if that's being fair

I'll keep hangin onI won't let myselfBe a victim anymoreI don't careIf you forgive meYou can cause me painAt most, my blood will stainAnd scab, and it will healYou can't kill me!

In the place of our love,You filled in with hurt,Colored unimaginable ,Unfulfilled first,And I wasn't enough,And I knew that so muchI tried so hard to make it all workBut you went away worrying and wasted,Wasting my timeWith all those lies,You always despised, delicate, forgetting the worth

'Dirty Pure' is an illustrated poetic memoir. Strangely compelling, the overly loquacious stream of neurosis takes the reader on a boat ride to crazy town where one is confronted by anxious ultra-analysed, near-issues that border on full blown psychosis before being blindsided somehow by the bizarrely...